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I am Tricia. Momma of nine, homeschooler, artist, foodie and maker of all kinds of things. It's a pleasure to share here our family homesteading adventures, the things we make, and what inspires our days. Read more about my family and work here. Thanks for visiting!

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Little lamb ear warmer for my little lamb

By on November 2, 2011 in crochet, Yarn Along

Yarning Along with Ginny again.  On Saturday we will be going to Pioneer Day and it should be chilly out.  I love Pioneer Day.  There are usually knitters, spinners, weavers and lots of demonstrations going on all done in period costume they way they would have been done by the pioneers.  I made this little lamb ear warmer for Livie to keep her cute and warm and I am almost done making her a pair of matching longies.

I am happy to see it on her.  I designed this pattern when she was born and then never got it tested or finalized so by the time I wanted to make her another one, I had to resize the pattern so I now have a newborn pattern, sizes 12 months as well as 2T.  Anyone want to test the pattern for me?

Hopefully the longies will be done in time for her to wear them on Saturday. I love longies! I never made them until I had Livie and I am sure that when she is finally potty trained I will keep making them for her until she looks ridiculously too big to wear such things anymore : )

I am still working my way through the kimono I started last week and hope to get it done in the next few nights. 

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Happy Hallowmas

By on November 1, 2011 in Holidays

A Happy All Saints Day to everyone!  We started the day with mass and then came home to a Momma made breakfast of oatmeal waffles with bananas foster sauce.  The kids spent a good part of the late morning designing their pumpins and then pulling pumpkin guts and carving them out on the front porch.

We got first place this year at the Saints Day picnic at church. I have to admit that I probably did not deserve it since I totally procratinated and waited until the day before the picnic to start making my costumes then ended up working until 2 AM to finish all 7 saints costumes.  (Never again…even though that is the exact thing I said last year). 
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For anyone who does not know what Hallowmas is all about you can read more about it here.

 in case you are wondering, he is dressed as Saint Dennis of Paris who was beheaded

 This is my favorite costume of course.  Santa Lucia day is one of my favorite winter holidays.  The Feast of Saint Lucia is coming up on December 13th so I will post a tutorial next week on how to make the crocheted wreath and candles.  The dress was made from a thrifted womans shirt which happened to have the sweet smocking around the collar.  All I had to do was detach the sleeves, cut the chest down to size and reattach the shortened sleeves then add some elastic through a casing around the wrists. 

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